2004

2004: X WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Budapest (HUN)

For
the first time the World indoor championship was staged on an even year in order to not coincide with Olympic Games or World outdoor championships. The ’Budapest Sportarena’ was the venue of the tenth edition on 15-17 March and 677 athletes attended the event from a record figure of 139 countries.
Athletes showed great foWR early in the Olympic year and the event was blessed with five world records. The star name was Russia’s Tatiana Lebedeva who first equalled the world record of 15.16 before improving to 15.16 and
15.25 in subsequent rounds; in addition she also clinched gold in the Long Jump. The Triple jump Jump was undoubtedly the event of the weekend as Christian Olsson equalled the men’s world record with a 17.83 third-attempt leap. Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva produced a beautiful first-time clearance over a world record height of 4.86m while her fellow Russians managed the last world record of the competition by clocking 3:23.88 in the women’s 4×400 relay.Russia dominated the event for the first time since 1995 with a total tally of 18 medals, six more than the USA, 12 (4/5/1) while Sweden and Ethiopia tied for the third position with 4 medals each (2/1/1).Official Website – Budapest’2004